Sometime in the next two months, Dwyane Wade will make the decision of whether he will spend next season in Chicago or elsewhere. On the surface, there are about 23.8 million reasons that his choice seems pretty clear. But at some point before then, he's going to have a longer meeting with the Bulls' front-office brain trust than his brief Saturday morning exit interview, and both sides are going to have to tell each other some hard truths.

Wade left Miami for Chicago after 13 seasons knowing full well the Bulls weren't a championship contender, but the limbo the team found itself in all season is not something he wants to repeat. The Bulls tried to pull off the balancing act of competing for the playoffs while simultaneously rebuilding. Whenever Gar Forman and John Paxson address reporters, they will likely point to the Bulls' just-finished playoff berth as evidence that the plan was a success. But Wade, and plenty of others, would like them to pick one...

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